Mark Rothko

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abstract expressionist artist human painter

Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and leading figure of Abstract Expressionism, renowned for his large-scale color field paintings that explore profound emotional and spiritual themes.

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abstract expressionist artist → human → painter →
artisticFocus	emotional expression → spiritual themes →
birthName	Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz →
burialPlace	East Marion Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	suicide →
citizenship	United States of America →
countryOfBirth	Latvia →
dateOfBirth	1903-09-25 →
dateOfDeath	1970-02-25 →
educatedAt	Yale University →
emigratedTo	United States of America →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Rothkowitz →
fieldOfWork	painting →
genre	abstract art →
givenName	Markus →
hasWorkInCollection	Museum of Modern Art → National Gallery of Art → Tate Modern → Whitney Museum of American Art →
influenced	Color Field painters → Minimalist artists → contemporary abstract painters →
influencedBy	Surrealism → mythology → philosophy →
movement	Abstract Expressionism → Color Field painting →
name	Mark Rothko →
notableWork	Black on Maroon → Four Darks in Red → No. 10 (1950) → No. 14 (1960) → No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green) → No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange) → No. 5/No. 22 → No. 61 (Rust and Blue) → Orange, Red, Yellow → Rothko Chapel paintings → Seagram Murals → Untitled (Black on Gray) → Untitled (Black on Maroon) → White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) →
placeOfBirth	Daugavpils →
placeOfDeath	New York City →
religion	atheism →
spouse	Edith Sachar → Mary Alice Beistle →
style	large-scale color field compositions →
workLocation	New York City →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Henri Matisse → Jackson Pollock → Paul Klee →	influenced
Abstract expressionism → Rothko Room (Mark Rothko works) →	associatedWithArtist
Barnett Newman → Willem de Kooning →	contemporaryOf
Reina Sofía Museum →	creatorOfCollectionIncludes
Rothko Room (Mark Rothko works) →	exhibitsWorkBy
Green River Cemetery →	hasBurial
Abstract art →	hasNotableArtist
Baltimore Museum of Art →	hasNotableArtistInCollection
Color Field painting →	hasNotablePractitioner
Rothko Room (Mark Rothko works) →	hasPrimaryArtist
The Phillips Collection →	hasWorkBy
Color Field painting →	influencedBy
Mark Rothko →	name
Art Students League of New York →	notableAlumni